Archives 2015

ICRAF Geoscience Lab in partnership with IUCN with funding by DFID have developed a semi offline android [app](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.icraf.gsl.iucn.treespecieslocator "Africa Tree Finder"), that can be used by extension officers, foresters, ecologist and farmers to help identify suitable tree species for their surrounding. The ...

String operations in R

Efficiently checking and/or changing strings in complex data sets is often very time consuming, but R has a rich set of functions for managing strings (e.g. sentences or paragraphs). We will focus on the stringr library in this sessions, introducing a few key functions. You will need:

We have conducted 8 R Brown-bag seminars till now. This week we decided to revisit some of the examples shown in previous seminars, participants were asked to write code in RStudio and show results (code writing practice session).

The seventh R brownbag seminar was by Dr. Tor G. Vagen (Senior Scientist, ICRAF) who continued from the previous week and demonstrated more advanced use of ggplot2. The dplyr package, which will be the topic of several future seminars was also introduced.

The field team from the ICRAF GeoScience Lab led by John Maina and Clement Okia (ICRAF Uganda) has completed the first of two Land Degradation Surveillance Framework (LDSF) sites on Mt Elgon in Uganda, as part of the project "Filling knowledge gaps on the restoration of degraded smallholder landscape mosaics". See slides below to get ...

After a one-week break, our brown-bag seminar series resumed again. In seminar 5, Antony Ndungu presented a number of different R graphing functions. Complete source code for the 5th seminar is available below, while the data used in the exercises can be found here.